10 courses with the subject MSA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
This course focuses on internal controls that enable organizations to effectively and efficiently meet their objectives while adapting to the changes in business and operating environments. The course will emphasize design, implementation, and the assessment of the effectiveness of the systems of internal control.
This course explores why critical thinking is important in the CPA profession. The students will be encouraged to think flexibly while exploring multiple perspectives. Students will conceptualize, apply, analyze, synthesize and evaluate information from various sources. The AICPA critical thinking core competency framework will be used as a guide throughout the course.
This course examines specific procedures using data analysis techniques that assist the auditor in reducing sampling risk/audit risk without decreasing audit efficiency. Data will be examined using an industry specific audit analytical tool, IDEA, to analyze the client’s financial information.
This course introduces graduate students to professional accounting resources. Focuses on how research can help address measurement, uniformity and disclosure issues that regularly arise in business. Review and critique research work and their implications for the practice of accounting. Evaluates policy formation of professional accounting standards and their impact on business reporting. Return to Table of Contents Nichols College 2026-2027 Catalog 168
This course will strengthen your personal and professional relationships by constructively addressing conflicts between individuals and organizations. You will explore how competing interests and goals, power imbalances and other factors influence the nature of conflict and the management strategy. Lastly, students will understand and apply BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) to negotiate in uncertain environments, deal with difficult people, and manage conflict.
This course will examine the accounting standard setting process and new accounting pronouncements. Students will critically analyze business problems and debate possible outcomes to arrive at the most feasible solution. At the conclusion of the course, students should be able to analyze situations at a deeper, more critical level.
Students will explore such key areas as the analytics process, how data is created, stored, accessed, and how the organization works with data and created the environment in which analytics can flourish. Students will gain perspective on the future of the professional. Blockchain technology, data security and integrity, and artificial intelligence (AI) are topics that will be covered.
This course provides understanding and skill development in various methods of employee engagement such as attention zones, goal settings, prioritizing, delegating, focusing, and evaluating. Students will gain more self-awareness through the various assignments, as well as learn the concept of emotional intelligence to keep employees motivated, productive and fulfilled. Emotional Intelligence (also referred to as EI and EQ) is about an individual's ability to recognize and regulate their own emotions and the emotions of others in order to achieve their goals. This course will explore various models of EQ, the ethics of incorporating EI assessments and training in various situations, criticism of the EQ concept and components of EI, and how to strengthen your own Emotional Intelligence.
The culminating experience for the MSA program. The goal of the capstone course is to assess students’ ability to synthesize and integrate the knowledge and skills they have developed throughout their coursework. This course is designed to aid student success in fulfilling program requirements.
This course is offered on an occasional basis and addresses topics and themes of special interest not covered in the standard MSA course offerings. Master of Science in Counterterrorism (MSC)
Source: Nichols College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
